The use of the silent E, for instance, makes very good sense: scribes were trying to find a way of indicating a long preceding vowel sound: that gives us the difference between "run" and "rune".
This is important in that many theories of why social movements succeed or fail emphasize the critical need for a long preceding organizing period of smaller events that build the national networks and organizing infrastructure as an enabling base to leverage the sudden attention to maximal effect.
And if Florida must therefore be subsumed into the South that was long preceded by the adjective "solid," how are essential features of Dixie's identity altered and even rendered suspect?
Were they not, for some 70 years, all Yugoslavs, united by the long history of alien rule that preceded that country's invention soon after the first world war?So they were—except that it was exactly alien rule that disunited them.
But all of these are trends that long precede the legalization of single-sex marriage, and that generally hold as true for countries without legalized same-sex marriage or the equivalent as they do for those with it.
These consistently strong patterns of genetic structure suggest that much of the modern reptile and amphibian fauna of southern Australia bears a strong stamp of divergence events that occurred many million of years ago, and were caused by climatic events that long preceded Pleistocene climatic fluctuations (i.e. in the Miocene and Pliocene).
Rather, it was part of a chronic pattern of low life satisfaction that long preceded the loss.
Minimalism must ultimately be seen as but one manifestation of a deeper trend in Western art that long precedes the 1960's.
In the land of the Soviets, the voice of the Kremlin was everywhere, an omnipresent reality-via-radio that long preceded Orwell's dystopia.
As much as we say we want more details about products, it seems that many of us care most of all about a kind of label that long preceded these newfangled ones: the price tag.
Were there a title like Uncle of Secession, it might have gone to Norman Mailer, who ran for New York mayor 40 years ago with a call for the entire city to break away from the state, an idea that long preceded him.
